Hi Guys
A few weeks ago i asked questions about the Kemper Profiler.
The answers were excellent and the conversations very informative,I joined
the Kemper Forum and......well.
I had a few questions that i thought best answered on the Kemper Forum,and after many messages,it was decided that i should do a test recording,then someone would put that recording through their Kemper and post the results.
The recording was done with no effects at all,just the guitar plugged straight into the Interface,then into Logic Pro.
The resulting file was put through 10 different clean amps on the Kemper,imagine my surprise when they all sounded the same and no better than my Blackstar ID30 Amp.
I have listened to demo's on youtube of some amazing clean tones,and i think i would like to sound like that,but based on recording i did it doesn't sound anything like them.
My question is,was this a fair test?
Why did all the demo's sound the same?
Does this mean the end of me getting a Kemper?
Apologies for asking again,but it is really doing my head in.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Thank you
Alan
Comments
If you want speculation, here are some possible answers:
My favorite Kemper clean profile is one of a Bognor Goldfinger from The Amp Factory.
Through either the PA system or guitar can abd poweramp it just sounds wonderful - the demo's on the amp factory's website that are recorded directly and give, in my opionion, a good feel for the end sound.
I think the re-amping procedures/proces has thrown up a lot of questions. There is a a lot of threads on the Kemper private forum about re-amping - most of which suggest using the unit's SPDIF output into a DAW for re-amping.
As a Kemper owner I can read through (you need to own a unit to get to the private forum) and pull the useful bits out and PM them across
Or there is a wikipedia-esque kemper page with a section on re-amping
http://www.wikpa.org/Recording#Reamping
I'm based in Essex if you want to hear one live - honestly, it will blow you away
My favourite clean tone is, without doubt, a silverface fender twin reverb. However, lots of people like fender blackface amps, or tweeds, or a whole host of other tones. The reasons why they like them vary. I like silverface amps because it's 'that' nile tone, snappy and funky and totally clean, yet warm. Tweed amps have a bit of breakup, and are very warm indeed, and blackface amps are plain and uninspiring to me but others will pay through the nose for that sound.
So when you say improve, what sound do you want?
And what I meant was a constant volume of picking will only reveal the amp doing one tone. If that varies, different amps respond differently.
Have you got a sound clip showing the sort of sound you want to get? On the previous one, the chorus is a bit dominating. Is there a specific band or player you like?